Eric Clapton Quotes

British - Musician Born: March 30, 1945

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The blues are what I've turned to, what has given me inspiration and relief in all the trials of my life. Eric Clapton

Life, Me, My Life, Blues, Trials, Relief

One of the most beneficial things I've ever learned is how to keep my mouth shut. Eric Clapton

Mouth, Things, Shut, Most, Ever, Keep

In playing, I suppose my greatest gift was to express the way I felt or the willingness to express myself. Eric Clapton

Gift, Myself, Greatest Gift, Way, Felt

I used to do crazy things that people would bail me out of, and I'm just grateful that I survived. But the music got very lost; I didn't know where I was going, and I didn't really care. I was more into just having a good time, and I think it showed. Eric Clapton

Good, Music, Grateful, Time, People, Me

Risk is trying to control something you are powerless over. Eric Clapton

Control, You, Trying, Risk, Over

I think I deliberately sold out a couple of times. I picked the songs that I thought would do well in the marketplace, even though I didn't really love the song. Eric Clapton

Love, Song, Thought, Think, Out, Well

I think everybody has their own way of looking at their lives as some kind of pilgrimage. Some people will see their role as a pilgrim in terms of setting up a fine family, or establishing a business inheritance. Everyone's got their own definition. Mine, I suppose, is to know myself. Eric Clapton

Family, Business, Myself, People, Think

I am, and always will be, a blues guitarist. Eric Clapton

I Am, Blues, Will, Always, Guitarist, Am

I often enjoy singing in an acoustic setting more than an amplified one. Eric Clapton

Singing, Enjoy, More, Setting, Than

I don't know if I believe in luck. I think I'm very fortunate. Eric Clapton

Luck, Believe, Think, Know, I Believe

Music became a healer for me. Eric Clapton

Music, Me, Healer, Became

It's taken me to be an older guy, an old man, to have an old man's voice. Because I only liked old men's voices. As a kid, I didn't like pip-squeaked singers. Eric Clapton

Man, Men, Me, Voice, Old Man, Kid

The first guitar I ever had was a gut-string Spanish guitar, and I couldn't really get the hang of it. I was only 13, and I talked my grandparents into buying it for me. I tried and tried and tried, but got nowhere with it. Eric Clapton

Guitar, Me, Grandparents, Buying, First

It was a mystery to me, how the tuning was, or the style seemed to come out of nowhere, it obviously had roots in America going way back, there was nothing like it for me I'd ever seen before. Eric Clapton

Style, Roots, Me, Mystery, America, Back

I remember hearing Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, Big Bill Broonzy, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley and not really knowing anything about the geography or the culture of the music. But for some reason it did something to me - it resonated. Eric Clapton

Music, Culture, Me, Remember, Geography

But the guitar, when you think about it, is the most versatile, really. I mean you can pick it up and take it with you wherever you go. Eric Clapton

Guitar, Think, You, Mean, Go, Wherever

To sing in a lower key is harder work. You have to use your diaphragm more. Eric Clapton

Work, Key, You, Sing, More, Your

I did play a lot of fingerstyle when I first started playing. I could never really find the right combination of flatpick or fingerpick, so playing fingerstyle is really the easiest way - though it's quite strenuous on the fingertips. Eric Clapton

Find, Play, Never, Way, Right, First

The toughest thing about being a celebrity, I suppose, is being polite when I don't want to be. Eric Clapton

Want, Celebrity, Being, Thing, Polite

I like solitude. I like the anomalous life. I like a quiet life. Eric Clapton

Life, Solitude, Quiet, Like, Quiet Life

There's a desire in me to express something - to match what I hear in my head. Eric Clapton

Me, Desire, Head, Something, Match, Hear

I sought my father in the world of the black musician, because it contained wisdom, experience, sadness and loneliness. I was not ever interested in the music of boys. From my youngest years, I was interested in the music of men. Eric Clapton

Father, Wisdom, Music, Loneliness, Men

Very much like that, and very much a loner, do you know and I didn't fit really into sport or all kind of group activities as a kid, I couldn't find a niche. And music was not really part of the kind of village curriculum it would, you know. Eric Clapton

Music, You, Group, Find, Know, Village

I think everybody has their own way of looking at their lives as some kind of pilgrimage. Some people will see their role as a pilgrim in terms of setting up a fine family, or establishing a business inheritance. Everyone's got their own definition. Eric Clapton

Family, Business, People, Looking, Think

I listened to King Oliver and I listened to Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, John Coltrane, Archie Shepp... I listened to everything I could that came from that place that they call the blues but, in formality, isn't necessarily the blues. Eric Clapton

King, Place, Blues, Everything, Monk

Music became a healer for me. And I learned to listen with all my being. I found that it could wipe away all the emotions of fear and confusion relating to my family. Eric Clapton

Family, Music, Fear, Me, Emotions, Away

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